Favorite Pickups

Some say they can hear a difference between the JBJs and the newer machine-wound JBs. The Duncan techs will pull out the specs and swear that there is no
difference. I think they're both great, but I do think I can tell that the JBJs have a little more character to them.

I had a zebra JBJ in the Washburn N2 and it made that under-sized guitar sound huge. I also have one in a Charvel Predator that's tuned down to D and it
never sounds muddy or flabby. All the rest of them are in the Kramers, which I swear by.

If you don't care for it, you know there'll be a home for it here. lol!

Just received the "kind" from brother Darth! A couple of Demons delivered in Darth fashion! Thanks again man! I definitely appreciate all the
extra effort and concern to make things just "so" on your part!

Scored a Duncan JB trembucker on ebay. It'll go in the Kami or the Sunburst Tiger. Will get another JB or Duncan Distortion for the other.

I checked with ESP on the neck pickup in the Serpent. I don't have the e-mail in front of me, but I think it's the LH-100. He said that it has an
output of about 13.5k... compare that to a Duncan neck Hot Rail at 10.8k! wow!

A few weeks back I thought I'd scored another JB trembucker. Turns out it was a standard-spaced JB, but it was a JBJ. Of course, I was so excited to see a
JBJ I totally overlooked the standard spacing until I had it in the ESP Sunburst Tiger.... at which point I took it out and noticed I had a JB trembucker in
the Ibanez Voyager and just put it in the ESP. Jeez. You'd think I could keep better track of things.

Anyway, I'd like to see R4P pull out a review of those Gibson Burstbucker pickups in the LP he's getting.

DarthPhineas wrote:
A few weeks back I thought I'd scored another JB trembucker. Turns out it was a standard-spaced JB, but it was a JBJ. Of course, I was so excited to see
a JBJ I totally overlooked the standard spacing until I had it in the ESP Sunburst Tiger.... at which point I took it out and noticed I had a JB trembucker
in the Ibanez Voyager and just put it in the ESP. Jeez. You'd think I could keep better track of things.

Anyway, I'd like to see R4P pull out a review of those Gibson Burstbucker pickups in the LP he's getting.

Damn, don't know how I missed this post. Totally digging the bridge pickup. Definitely a midrange pickup with not too much bass or treble.
Very well balanced, and it's not too hot and unforgiving, but it's not weak either. I don't care for the neck pickup, but then again I've
never been much for playing from the neck pickup. Just too mellow and toned down for me. The clean tone from the bridge and neck is pretty damn good, and the
neck pickup gets the nod here. Then again, I'm not much on playing clean either.

Putfile is down right now so I'll post a couple of clips of riffs I've noodled around with on it a little later.

Razor4Pens wrote:
DP, haven't heard about, much less played any GFS pickups. What's the scuttlebutt on them?.

Hard to tell so far. I've been scoping out ebay for another f-spaced Duncan so I can go ahead and replace that last Demon in the ESP Serpent... and I came
across these. They appear to be some lower-cost pickups that seem to get a lot of positive reviews over on HC (here). They are also sold directly through GuitarFethish.com and on ebay.

Sent an e-mail to them to find out more about comparisons to model names we may recognize. Will post when I hear more.

But I was just curious is anyone else has heard of them or played through them.

Anyone have any for sale? I am looking at getting one to go along with my Dimarzio Tone Zone, so more of a neck pickup. I have been looking at maybe a hb sized P90 or ???? Maybe a demon would go good in the neck of my LP.